It's not a surprise a general user acts like you said. But what I have experienced is even more worst. Technical students in our famous universities study about *NIX in books, but don't ever use it. Some of them have installed Linux in their computers, but with multiple entries in bootloader because eventually they have to switch back to windows. Even the Core Subject teachers/lecturers/professors like Operating Systems, Distributed System, Data Structures etc in our educational institutions don't like to use *NIX operating systems. They would rather buy expensive licenses for proprietary software for labs, but won't switch to open-source alternatives. They teach you semaphores, dead-locks, UNIX filesystems, processes, Kernel Internals, data structures etc etc but they would never encourage you to use *NIX because they themselves don't know how to use and neither they want to learn. How on earth a student learns such core things of OS and Programming without learning to code in *NIX? We start learning C programming with a buggy program with IDE called "Turbo C". Most of students of CS/IT pass out their bachelors without even knowing what is GCC, G++, GDB etc. Lets start change from us "Fossians". I am sure most the fossians here also have dual OSes installed in their computers. Remove the Windows operating systems just at once if you have guts. You might find it hard at first, but I'm sure once you get along with it, you will never want to switch back to Windows. You will never need any proprietary software again unless you are hard-core gamer. OS like Ubuntu has made it even simpler for beginners. No matter who you are, a general user, system administrator or a developer, it is like a deep sea where the depth increase with distance.
On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 9:08 PM, deeps <[email protected]> wrote: > many windows user have a misconception regarding software... > they judge software in terms of user interface...if the software has > aero/eve caching look...they say "the software is awesome" but if it has > simple UI they response software as not good.. > > same incident happened in my class... > one of my friend asked me to show my linux music player and i showed him > rhyhtmbox and instantly he replied me "not good" > > we have to convince them that judging software in terms of look is a bad > practice > definitely user interface is one part of software but not all...there > comes other parts of software like process/features/performance etc > vlc has simplest UI but yet is more powerful and better than any other > players out there > same stands for chrome, gimp, and other software > > lets aware windows user > lets convince them to try linux once > FOSS rocks > > -- > FOSS Nepal mailing list: [email protected] > http://groups.google.com/group/foss-nepal > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > > Mailing List Guidelines: > http://wiki.fossnepal.org/index.php?title=Mailing_List_Guidelines > Community website: http://www.fossnepal.org/ > -- http://surajneupane.com.np/ Suraj Neupane -- FOSS Nepal mailing list: [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/foss-nepal To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] Mailing List Guidelines: http://wiki.fossnepal.org/index.php?title=Mailing_List_Guidelines Community website: http://www.fossnepal.org/
